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- From: jens_alfke@gateway.qm.apple.com (Jens Alfke)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.video
- Subject: Re: Home Video Games History
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.205819.13471@gallant.apple.com>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 20:58:19 GMT
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- Christopher Jon Petit, petitc@vccnw04.its.rpi.edu writes:
- > Perhaps the first cartridge-based game system was the Fairchild video
- game
- >system. Unfortunately, it was far too complex for the people of its
- time--
- >it had a 'joystick' that could be twisted/pulled/pushed and ALL of these
- >would provide signals to the game. The only game I've heard of for this
- >system was a blackjack game.
-
- I had one of those -- my father worked for Fairchild at the time and
- brought one home. The controller was excellent. The head of the joystick
- could move in eight directions, could be twisted clockwise or
- counterclockwise, and could be pushed in or pulled out.
-
- There were about ten cartridges, I think; other than the blackjack game I
- recall hockey (really nice for the time; you moved one player (paddle)
- with the regular joystick moves and could rotate it by twisting the
- joystick, and moved the goalie up and down by pushing in or out) air
- combat and a tank battle.
-
- It flopped, of course.
-
- (Oh, and isn't Street Fighter 2 put out by Capcom, not Nintendo?)
-
- --Jens Alfke
-